“Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office, placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine enquired as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was well, and bid us a cordial good night. ” - Alfred Beach, editor of Scientific American

So I guess this idea of voice assistants has been around for a bit…

Welcome to Hearing Voices, SXSW edition (meaning I’m writing this from Austin but this will go out before the weekend gets started). If you’re here, check out the panel: Voice: The Invisible UI Nobody Speaks About. (spoiler alert: I’m going to crash it)

Appz To Try:> Anchor.fm launched its 2.0 version - I also launched an anchor.fm station which is a sort of daily audio edition of this subscription> Voice Metrics - “how’s business? just ask” voice metrics gives you your business metrics, delivered by voice > Voice Dream - want text read out loud? thanks to @schwiepit for directing me to this one. anyone can use it to have text read out loud, originally developed for students and adults with reading disabilities. pretty cool